Welcome to Character of the Year 2013. With every year, comes 23847293847234 skill lines. These skill lines can be complete nonsense, or can be ingenious ideas raveled together. Unfortunately, it's hard to gain recognition for these things. Most members don't give a crap about how a character is made and give random ratings that benefit nothing. Why does it matter though, it's not like any of out characters will be in-game, it's not like typing in boxes will benefit us at all. You know what. We still do it. We host competitions ourselves regardless of whether or not the community cares enough to read an entry before voting for their favorite Naruto character. We've done this for so long now, now we've had to come up with countermeasures. The first completely successful one, was Character of The Year, created by Sasuke1vs1Naruto. Not only would people get banned for random votes, but it was REQUIRED to CnC when you vote. This was the first competition that held no bias opinions, and the characters that deserved to win, did. Of course it still died though, because CnC'ing 10 characters every week gets tiring. Now, there's this. A different concept of Character of the Year. A single, one time contest to snuff out the best character, nominated by the community. We don't care if you ask your friends to nominate multiple characters by you, because they'll be narrowed down anyways. Think you can ask your friend to vote for you? Wrong. The overall community doesn't get a say in the actual voting process, because over the years, they've proved that they cannot learn to read. ALL IT IS, IS READING; AND MOST PEOPLE CAN'T DO IT. Not even mentioning the large advantage Naruto characters have over other anime characters during voting. Enough ranting, be sure to read the regulations before posting.Read the regulations for explicit detailsTo find the best character created in 2013, the NB community (you) can nominate their favorite characters from different CC makers created in 2013. These characters will be voted upon by selected judges in three stages. Qualifier: any creator who has more than two characters nominated will have their characters posted in a group to be narrowed down to two. Preliminary: All characters will be posted into groups with eachother. This is to seperate the weak characters from the strong before the main event. Primaries: Every character that passes the Preliminaries will be posted into bracket-type matchings until a single one is left standing.

- You must have 500 posts for your nomination to be valid. - You may nominate two characters made in 2013, that are NOT your own. However, after doing so, you may nominate a single character of yours. If any character you nominated is found to be older, all of your nominations will be void. - Your two nominations must be from different people.- Do not make duplicate nominations. Look to see if the character you want to nominate has already been nominated; if it has, nominate a different one.- Nominated characters may be from anything. This means any anime, manga, comic book, movie, cartoon, or even original characters. - Characters nominated may only have 30 skills lines total. The average skill has 6 lines. This means it may have an additional skill of there are no additional lines; and there may be additional lines, if there are no additional skills.- No rediculous joke characters, or characters with completely obvious ill intentions will be valid. The character may still have humor. - If a group contains your entry, you may not vote in it. - In every stage, you must order the entries from best to worst. Any format that follows this is fine. - In the qualifiers you do not have to explain your votes. - In the preliminaries and primaries you must explain your vote. This must be satisfactory, but does not have to be as detailed as SvN's CotY.

ANNOUNCEMENT: If you want me to put your character in this contest, I will if you get over 7.2 in CnCB from a review of mine. Meanwhile Lux and Bane are the ones that will have a character nominated from me. At least so it seems.